COVID-19, Foreign Policy, Republicans, Sport
HARD TRUTH PODCAST: “Steamrolled By The Abrams: Republican Cretins Swallow Classified Doc Bait.”
AND Much more, including Ukraine and the Abrams tanks said to be en route (wink-wink), and some curious news about the New Zealand All Blacks, who are working to become more woke.
An hour of fun was had and lots of good comments flowed in from viewers.
Thanks to all who partook.
Argument, Conservatism, Critique, Culture, English, Intellectualism, Logic, Reason
‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent’ ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
This is rich! (In-hysterics emoji)
Against the backdrop of the retirement of the superb Patrick J. Buchanan, some cipher—that’s a melodic word for a zero, a nobody—at The American Conservative, which I recommend avoiding like spam for penis extensions, one Declan Leary declares that Pat Buchanan “was not a great writer.”
Mr. Buchanan is a very fine writer! Spare and strong, easily great.
Let’s see: A nullity, Declan Leary, implies Buchanan was a mediocre writer, and does so while writing—nay embodying—mediocre, nondescript prose. I’m in stitches here.
Leary is still a pipsqueak, but you don’t grow talent. You either have it or you don’t. It is self-evident that Leary’s prose is never going to be anything but nondescript. (Experience Declan for yourself in “Against ‘Buchananism.’”)
I do declare that Declan Leary is engaged in something of a performative contradiction.
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent,” said Ludwig Wittgenstein, a great analytic philosopher.
*Lawrence Auster and I were first to denounce the American Conservative.
Iraq, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Old Right, Russia, War
Ukraine is a proxy for NATO. NATO is surrogate for Uncle Sam. These Dis-United States of America are waging a proxy, regime-change-war on Russia.
The formidable Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, founded in 2002, is hip to all this.
I’ve admired her since she, on the Old Left, stood with us of the Old Right against the destruction of Iraq.
Now, Medea is exactly where she needs to be on the Ukraine proxy-war outrage. With the same principles and depth.
Of course, you don’t see her on TV, on account that she’s brighter than the egos in the anchor chairs—by which I mean Ms. Benjamin has had the philosophical integrity and smarts to be on the right side from the onset.
In other words, Medea hasn’t just recently had a conversion—i.e., “I’ve learned something from Tucker Carlson, and now wanna be on his show.” Concepts like “NATO expansion” and the “events of 2014,” where America fomented a Color Revolution in Ukraine, have been as part of her vocabulary as they have been mine for a long, long time.
At the time “Why So Many Americans Don’t Support Attacking Iraq” (2002) was published in one of Canada’s two national newspapers—it was common for those on the Old Left to find commonalities with the Old Right. Like on matters antiwar.
Code Pink are still my pepes, but they get no backing from the war-loving Woke Left or from dopey ConInc., aka the UniParty.
COVID-19, Democrats, Donald Trump, Free Speech, IMMIGRATION, Individual Rights, Race, Racism, Republicans, Technology, The State
The Republican orgy over the orchestrated ouster of Biden in the matter of classified, “highly sensitive” state-documents, demonstrates how this lot, the GOP, is unseriousness about first-principle obligations to the voters. These are:
* Impeaching Biden for the country invaded and consequently permanently altered. From here on in, America will be what I term in my book, Into the Cannibal’s Pot, a dominant-party state.
* Demanding day-in, day-out that the 4-5 million outlaws invited into out country illegally be rounded up and deported, and not one more penny be stolen from taxpayers to pay for their keep and safe passage into American communities.
* Repealing all manner of Covid tyranny, including the ban on white, unvaccinated non-citizens from vising the US. Why do I assert that the travel ban on the unvaccinated is anti-white ? Because the reg says that foreigners from “countries with limited COVID-19 vaccine availability” may stream into the USA unvaccinated! This rule is a proxy for race, engineered to privilege brown and black Third Worlders and oust whites.
*Besides, why is the Administrative State—the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) legislating around our right of freedom of movement, and that of our friends and trading partners? Is it not an opportune time for the fucking GOP castrati to challenge the Managerial State’s usurpation of constitutional rights?
*Beating back crime and lawlessness: Clearing cities of homeless encampments, allowing cops to stop crime and for citizens to defend person and property against it.
*Defunding all institutions that practice woke anti-whiteness: schools, tertiary, secondary, primary.
*Launching Civil Rights action against any financial institution engaged in financial deplatforming based on thought crimes and impolite speech.
* Ceasing to bait the Russian bear, forcing a diplomatic solution on that kept man, Zelensky.
Or, given how dumb the GOP (RIP) is, just do what the good Governor Ron DeSantis is doing, but amplified.
UPDATE (1/28): The Mar-a-Lago Vs. Delaware distinction.
Other strictly partisan, less-philosophical conservatives, like Victor Davis Hansen, will try and draw distinctions around classified documents between their guy’s infractions, Biden’s, and our guy’s transgressions. This “Trump did it right” vs. “Biden did it wrong” case is an extension of the original distraction.
In fact, you don’t have to read such an undignified argument—I don’t—to know that it is NOT and argument from first principles.